Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary has said.

PLANS to give police a formal role in deciding appropriate punishment for criminals have come under fire from MSPs.

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary has said.

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary claims.

Convicted criminals could end up voting for police chiefs from their prison cells under controversial Coalition plans.

Tens of thousands of foreign criminals could be slipping through the net because police only check the backgrounds of one in seven, an official review revealed yesterday.

Senior police officers have dismissed a report blaming officers' tactics for the summer riots saying it amounted to criminals making excuses for their actions.

POLICE forces have been handed around £1.5 million of cash taken from criminals despite a high-profile drive to use it for community causes.

Police Federation vicechairman Simon Reed has accused the Crown Prosecution Service of allowing serious criminals to avoid justice so that they can save money and meet government targets.

Louise Casey, the Anti-social Behaviour ‘Tsar’, has made a very important point this Boxing Day. Police, and the corrupt law and justice system, put criminals first. They don’t really care about the victims. What kind of society have we become when victims of crime are relegated because of an obsession with the criminals perceived rights. We would have